Spring belt-punch



. (Remodel) R. W. PRYOR & G1 SCHAETZLEQ 'SPRING BELT PUNCH? Patented Dec; 29,1896;

mat W, Emu Q WA (mm M62 $1M I I1 BY mY's.

livgb WITNESSES:

FFICE.

UNITED STATES PATENT ROBERT W. PRYOR AND CHARLES SOl-IAETZLE, OF NE\VARK, NEW JERSEY,

ASSIGNORS TO THE W. WV. PRYOR HARDWVARE MANUFACTURING COM- PANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

SPRING BELT-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,164, dated December 29, 1896. Application filed February 27, 1896. Serial No. 581,021. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; dinaryspring-punches. A springe nor'nally Be it known that We, ROBERT W. PRYORand holds said cutters apart, opening the ends or CHARLES SOHAETZLE, citizens of the United jaws ct b after they have been closed to- States, residing at Newark, in the county of gether when making the perforations.

Essex and State of New Jersey, have invent- The cutter d is a removable piece of tubued certain new and useful Improvements in lar shape with a projecting sharpened ex- Spring Belt-Punches; and we do hereby detremity, while the cutter c is a flat plate or clare the following to be a full, clear, and head against which the sharpened tube exact description of the invention, such as presses to secure the desiredoutin the leather 10 will enable others skilled in the art to which belt or other part. it appertains to make and use the same, ref- The removable tubular cutter is near its erence being had to the accompanying drawbase provided with an annular rim d, servings, and to letters of reference marked thereing as a gaging-stop, limiting the inward on, which form a part of this specification. movement of the said cutter into the socket I 5 The objects of this invention are to secure or perforation in the end 1) formed to receive 6 5 more perfectly-cut perforations in belts, &c., it. A set-screw f serves to hold the tubular to enable the cutting parts to automatically cutter in place and admit-s of an easy and accommodate themselves to one another, so quick removal.- as to produce the desired perfection of cut; The cooperating cutter or head 0 is auto- 20 to facilitate the work of changing the cutters matically adjustable in its bearings on the when it is desired to produce larger or smaller end a", and thus accommodates itself to the perforations; to reduce the cost of construccutting edge of the tubularcutter d to secure tion and provide a device of increased cona uniform bearing of parts around the whole venience as compared to certain other devices periphery of the cutting extremity and pro- 2 5 now in common use, and to secure other adduce a clear uniform out free from ragged 7 vantages and results, some of which may be edges. To receive said cutter or head 0 the referred to hereinafter in connection with the end a" is recessed or cored out, as at a, the description of the working parts. inner end of the recess being made funnel- The invention consists in the improved shaped. Said end a is also transversely o belt-punchhavingthearrangementsandcombored to receive a holding-pin g. Said cutbinations of parts, all substantiallyas will be ter or head 0 is provided with a shank c,

hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in somewhat smaller diametrically than the rethe clauses of the claim. cess, but of a length a little longer than the Referring to the accompanying drawings, depth of said recess, the head 0 being thus 3 5 in which like letters indicate corresponding held away from the inner face 60 of the end parts in each of the two views, Figure 1 is a a. Said shank c is also bored transversely perspective view of the improved belt-punch, or cored out, the perforation being diametricshowing the relations of the several parts to ally larger than the holding-pin. Furthereach other; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view more, the shank is made conical at its inner 0 showing the construction of one of the cutting extremity, the angle of the opposite inclined 0 parts. sides being more acute than that formed by In said drawings, a b are the pivoted memthe opposite tapering or funnel-shaped sides bers of the punch, having the usual hand of the recess. The shank is placed in said portions to b and ends a I)", having bearings recess a so that its small extremity rests in 5 for the cutters c 11, said pivoted members the angle of the funnel-shaped walls, and as 5 crossing one another at the pivot, so that the parts are loosely fitted said head has a when the hand portions a b are grasped by limited rocking motion in any direction, the hand and forced toward one another the whereby thedesired engagement of parts is cutting ends will be forced to bring the said secured. After insertion the head cis loosely 5o cutters into engagement, all as is usual in orheld inplace by the transverse pin g. I00

To store the tubular cutters d, we have pivoted a rod 1' upon the inner side of one of the handles 1), upon which the tubular cutters not in use can be strung and held close to said innersurfaee orside of the handle. The said storage-rod 11 is bent at its end lying toward the pivot of the members a b, and the short end i has apivotal relation to the handle, by which the body of said rod may be thrown laterally to one side of the said handle to admit of the cutters being strung thereon.

The extremity of the handle b is notched or recessed at its inwardly-curved end, as at 1/, to receive the free end of the storage-rod, the resiliency of the rod allowing said free end to be forced into and held in the notch with sufficient security.

The rod 1' may project a little beyond the end of the handle to provide means for e011- venient-ly opening the device to receive or allow the removal of the cutters.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim as new is 1. The improved punch herein described, in which is combined with pivoted cutter members a, b, one of which is provided with a tubular cutter and the other with a recess and transverse perforations, the recess being funnel-shaped at its bottom or inner extremity, and a cooperating cutter'head 0, having a shank with a conical extremity and a transverse perforation, and a pin held in the perforations of the member a, and passing through the shank of the head, the latter having a loose movement in said member a, and on said head, substantially as set forth.

2. The improved punch herein described, comprising the pivotal members a, b, one of which is provided with a cutter and the other a recess and transverse perforation, and a cutter-head c, loosely held in said recess, having a shank bearing firmly on the bottom of said recess, but having a rocking movement thereon in all directions, and a pin arranged in said transverse perforation and loosely holding said shank permanently within the recess, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 13th day of February, 1896.

ROBERT "W. PRYOR. CHARLES SOI-IAETJLE. Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, CHARLES II. PELL. 

